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Fun home networking confusion!

Saga

Saga

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Alright, in my apartment I have a personal Cox fiber line running 10mb down, 1mb up.

I have it coming into the cable modem, and the cable modem then connects to the WAN port on a SMC 8 port DSL/Cable Router.

From the router, I am running two cables. One goes to a 20 port SMC gigabit switch which is connected to 8 systems and a printer.

The other cable goes to a generic cheapo $65 dlink wireless router. Initially I set this router up by disabling DHCP and turning it into a wireless access point for my network of 3 wireless laptops, the Xbox, and the MP3 receiver on the home stereo.

The problem! I have a laptop on a hardline to the dlink right now. I need to further configure the wireless router portwise and possibly WEP-wise, however I cannot connect to it either via a wireless laptop or a wired laptop. The only connection I can make is 192.168.2.1 which is the SMC router. 192.168.1.1, etc which are for the dlink do not properly bring open the admin panels for that router.

What are my options aside from ripping the network apart? I attempted to wire the dlink directly to the cable modem and simply got a limited or no connectivity (because it has DHCP disabled currently).
 
You are trying to run a double router setup, which can be annoying to say the least. If you follow these directions, and never hook a line into the WAN port of the wireless again you can have a unified network with one Class "c" address range.
1) remove wireless router from network
2)reset router with factory procedure, holding button in on power up, whatever is recommended.
3) plug a computer into one of the wireless router's LAN ports. Get an address from it. log into it.
4)turn off the dhcp server, and assign the router a local address of 192.168.2.2, for example. just make sure it is not an address currently being used by a device on the network. Set the gateway at 192.168.2.1, the SMC router. When you do this, you will lose connectivity to the router till you assign the connected computer an address in the same class 'c' as the router, or plug it into the SMC and get a new address via DHCP.
5) Connect the wireless router to your other router using one of the LAN ports. Do not use the WAN port. Now the wireless is a dumb switch and Access Point (AP) on your network. NOTE: You may need to use a crossover cable to do this, if niether of the routers has MDI/MDI-X autonegotiation switch ports.
6) log into the AP and set up the wireless as needed.
 
Actual IP?? Some NAT routers will forward DNS requests. I'd recommend just using your ISP's DNS IP's. Take the middleman out of it.
 
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